http://www.cardus.ca/contributors/smartin en Copyright 2012 Cardus Thu, 24 May 2012 11:38:57 -0400 Cardus Thu, 24 May 2012 11:38:57 -0400 http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3144/ If writing a novel is an effort to bring such beauty into the world—to in any way redeem Creation—then the author of that story must swim deep and bring up fistfuls of human experience as ... Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400 If writing a novel is an effort to bring such beauty into the world—to in any way redeem Creation—then the author of that story must swim deep and bring up fistfuls of human experience as ... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/2806/ If the salt loses its saltiness, if you as a writer only scratch the surface of the world instead of digging deeply into life on this earth, your stories won't stay on the table but be thrown out into... Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500 If the salt loses its saltiness, if you as a writer only scratch the surface of the world instead of digging deeply into life on this earth, your stories won't stay on the table but be thrown out into... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/1970/ There could scarcely be a more timely novel. Linden MacIntyre's The Bishop's Man is a troubling portrait of a Catholic priest trying to walk the high wire between justice and compromise, between his c... Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0400 There could scarcely be a more timely novel. Linden MacIntyre's The Bishop's Man is a troubling portrait of a Catholic priest trying to walk the high wire between justice and compromise, between his c... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/1465/ A testament to the necessity and the ultimate inescapability of faith, even in a profoundly secular world.... Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 A testament to the necessity and the ultimate inescapability of faith, even in a profoundly secular world.... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/887/ "I don't believe in God, but I miss Him."... Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 "I don't believe in God, but I miss Him."... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/62/ We asked Comment contributors to send us very short statements of practical wisdom that they use and are willing to stand by, based on their own experience or oral traditions in their communities.... Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400 We asked Comment contributors to send us very short statements of practical wisdom that they use and are willing to stand by, based on their own experience or oral traditions in their communities.... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/29/ Although a "baseball novel," Safe at Home is also a story deeply rooted in the racial conflict surrounding the early civil rights movement in the American South. Racism in this novel is never dealt wi... Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Although a "baseball novel," Safe at Home is also a story deeply rooted in the racial conflict surrounding the early civil rights movement in the American South. Racism in this novel is never dealt wi...